Modernisation completed at Vicat site

Published:
02 October 2007

Vicat has invested Euro 51m in the course of a two-year period, in themodernisation of its production site in Montalieu in the Isere department ofFrance. In the last stage of the investment programme, a conveyor isreported to have been installed between the Enieu quarry and the productionsite to take the place of road transport, along with a unit forprehomogenisation of marl with storage capacity of 30,000 tonnes. Newclinker production lines will, in two stages, increase daily capacity from3500tpd to 4,500tpd.

The modernisation of the French site forms part of a broader programmeinvolving investments of 1bn euros planned between the present date and2010, both at home and abroad. Management is aiming for expansionin Asia, India, Malaysia and Kazakhstan.